‘A film that’s just a commercial for the next film’….Catching Fire gets the Honest Trailers treatment

YouTube channel Honest Trailers has been delivering its own candid take on Hollywood blockbusters for some time now – but its latest effort, spoofing The Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire, is one of its best yet.

The parody condenses everything you may ever have asked yourself or noticed about the Jennifer Lawrence film into four minutes, poking fun at the actress’s girl next door appeal, the film’s Subway sandwich deal and its tendency to kill off bit part players ‘before you’ve even learned their names’.

Josh Hutcherson’s Peeta Mellark doesn’t get off lightly either, as the narrator dubs him ‘a total burden to everyone around him’, while pointing out that Lawrence’s ‘feminist icon’ Katniss Everdeen ‘spends the entire movie getting saved by boys’.

The channel may well find itself with even more to parody when the next Hunger Games film, Mockingjay, hits cinemas in November 2015.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is out on Blu-ray, DVD and Download on 17th March 2014, courtesy of Lionsgate Home Entertainment.